Reining in Regulation or Delegation?
Greetings from the frozen tundra of Northern Indiana! As a new Congress gets set to work, administrative law aficionados are focusing on the Regulatory Accountability Act (“RAA”), which would...
View ArticleOngoing Interest in Regulatory Cost Budgets
This week the Senate Budget Committee held another hearing titled “Moving to a Stronger Economy Through Regulatory Budgeting”. The hearing included three witnesses, including Dr. John Graham, former...
View ArticleThe Congressional Review Act Revisited
This month the House of Representatives passed two resolutions under the Congressional Review Act (5 USC 801, et seq .) that disapproved of EPA’s recent rules for greenhouse gases from new and existing...
View ArticleRegulatory Reform Legislation, Where Do Things Stand?
Regulatory reform legislation has been a lively topic, and is likely to remain so. Next Tuesday, a panel featuring four senior House and Senate professional staff members will address “Congressional...
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The Structure of Regulatory Revolutions
Today the most important book in administrative law is one that was written a half-century ago—but not by Kenneth Culp Davis, or Walter Gellhorn, or James Landis, or the other legends of administrative...
View ArticleHow Agencies Should Communicate During Notice-and-Comment Rulemaking
As Elizabeth Porter and Kathryn Watts noted in their contribution to this symposium on how agencies communicate (as well as Michael Herz in his contribution), federal agencies have begun to utilize...
View ArticleACS Issue Brief: Reforming “Regulatory Reform”
From the American Constitution Society website: Reforming “Regulatory Reform”: A Progressive Framework for Agency Rulemaking in the Public Interest DAN FARBER Sho Sato Professor of Law and Faculty...
View ArticleUpcoming Hearing — From Beginning to End: An Examination of Agencies’ Early...
Two former OIRA Administrators are testifying tomorrow morning in a hearing that might re-kindle regulatory reform efforts in Congress. As Chris Walker has covered on this blog, the 115th Congress had...
View ArticleWallach on Lessons from the REINS Act
The REINS Act would have required Congress to approve all new “major” rules before they could go into effect. A significant re-ordering of the regulatory process, it was one of many regulatory reform...
View ArticleTwo Regulatory Reform Bills Introduced
Following up on my post about a Congressional hearing on regulatory reform before the U.S. Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Subcommittee on Regulatory Affairs and Federal...
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Rethinking Admin Law—A Progressive Agenda for Regulatory Reform, by Debra Perlin
The American Constitution Society is pleased to release Rethinking Admin Law: From APA to Z highlighting ideas from leading administrative law scholars and practitioners addressing what an affirmative...
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